Thompson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Lowery v. State (1994), Prowell v. State (1997)
23 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Zant v. Stephens · Beck v. Alabama · Sloan v. Hicks · Amperex Electronic Corp. v. New York Racing Assn., Inc. · Spaziano v. Florida
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[the defendant has been convicted of another murder.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hough v. State · Lockhart v. State“Dillon at first denied any complicity in these crimes but later testified for the State and implicated Thompson in the two murders.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“defendant committed the murder by intentionally killing the victim while committing or attempting to commit ... Robbery.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hough v. State · Miller v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.